Sunday, July 26, 2009
Psycho History
I don't know much about Griffin family history, but it's neat to learn about my other family. I can't tell you where many of my ancestors came from, but I can now tell you that Psycho Ultimate has come from a tradition of excellence. Loryn and I have been digging deep into old captains binders, looking up old tournament results, and enlisting help from Psycho alumnae to compile some Psycho history. Check out the updated Psycho website. A good place to start is at the "History" tab and then move on to the "Touraments" tab and scroll down to "Past Schedules and Results". Check out tournament results 2001-2002 and 2003-2004. Be inspired.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Disc Golf
When I tell people I play Ultimate Frisbee and they don't ask me if I mean throwing a Frisbee to a dog, they often ask me if I mean disc golf. Sometimes I just say "Oh right, that's what it's called," so I don't have to explain all the rules of Ultimate for the 7,000th time. I should probably stop doing that.
Yesterday, Meeko, Penny, Mahi, Loryn (down from Huntington Beach for a couple days), and I went out and played disc golf at the course in Balboa Park. I’d only played on the course on campus before then. Most of those times were during my freshman year when I didn't know how to throw at all, so I'd lose my disc it the middle (or beginning) of the round and go back to my room with my head down in shame, so this was basically my first disc golf experience. Despite being the middle of the week, the course was fairly busy. Then again, it was a beautiful day in tourist season. We were using regular Ultra Star discs (“Jumbos”) while everyone else on the course used legitimate disc golf discs so we stuck out. One guy gave us a hard time about it, but he was clearly just trying to make an excuse to talk to Penny (it didn’t work). Using the big discs reminded me a lot of Happy Gilmore using a hockey stick to putt in his golf tournaments. Our drives didn’t go as far as they would have, but it was good practice. I felt like I had a much better feel for the game once we were on the seventh hole or so. All in all, it was a great deal of fun. Nobody had to climb any trees to get their disc or got hit in the head by any stray flying discs. Success! Loryn was the star of the day with Meeko right behind her.
Yesterday, Meeko, Penny, Mahi, Loryn (down from Huntington Beach for a couple days), and I went out and played disc golf at the course in Balboa Park. I’d only played on the course on campus before then. Most of those times were during my freshman year when I didn't know how to throw at all, so I'd lose my disc it the middle (or beginning) of the round and go back to my room with my head down in shame, so this was basically my first disc golf experience. Despite being the middle of the week, the course was fairly busy. Then again, it was a beautiful day in tourist season. We were using regular Ultra Star discs (“Jumbos”) while everyone else on the course used legitimate disc golf discs so we stuck out. One guy gave us a hard time about it, but he was clearly just trying to make an excuse to talk to Penny (it didn’t work). Using the big discs reminded me a lot of Happy Gilmore using a hockey stick to putt in his golf tournaments. Our drives didn’t go as far as they would have, but it was good practice. I felt like I had a much better feel for the game once we were on the seventh hole or so. All in all, it was a great deal of fun. Nobody had to climb any trees to get their disc or got hit in the head by any stray flying discs. Success! Loryn was the star of the day with Meeko right behind her.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Coolest Psychos Version 2.0
- Ultra
- Alicia White
- Beignet
- Bowie
- Penny
- Piper
- Tambler
- Bling
- Liz
- Vi
- Slash
- Ebo
- Guano
- Snoop
- Skippy
- Tidal
- Yahtzee
- Kroft
- Brenda
- Quito
- Patch
- Mahi
- Tira
- Ashley
- Dada
- Dwade
- Nala
- Poppins
- Godiva
- Violet
- Peaches
- Beesly
- Maytag
- Ros
- Brass
- Ziggy
- Zeta
- Bonds
- Cuervo
- Kacto
- Loryn
- Ferris
- Trig
- Lindsey
- Kini
- Meeko
- Austen
- Spipit
- Sir Robin
- Joule
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Coolest Psychos Version 2.0: A Preview
The results of the Most Underrated Cool Psycho Poll are in the books and an expanded list of the coolest Psychos is coming soon. Will Ultra hold on to her title? According to the latest poll, calling her the “Coolest Psycho” is still an understatement. I’ve never met Alicia White, but playing on Team USA makes her seem like the only one that could seriously challenge Ultra for the top spot. Here are some of the other factors that will affect the latest rankings:
More Cool:
1. having similarities to Ultra, such being a Muir student or having an ear piercing in the same place
2. the ability to beat me up
3. never having heard of this blog
4. inherent coolness
5. having a second year boyfriend with a car
Less Cool:
1. spending a lot of time with either Sir Robin or Joule
2. having a science major or a nerdy job, especially if you talk about it a lot and make nerdy jokes (this may apply to Ultra, but she started out too cool for it to bring her down)
3. moving out of San Diego, especially if it’s to Santa Barbara
4. posting on Dragon Coalition after you’ve graduated (or worse, reading Dragon Coalition secretly and not posting)
5. getting one and only one vote in the Underrated Cool Psycho Poll (I know you voted for yourself)
More Cool:
1. having similarities to Ultra, such being a Muir student or having an ear piercing in the same place
2. the ability to beat me up
3. never having heard of this blog
4. inherent coolness
5. having a second year boyfriend with a car
Less Cool:
1. spending a lot of time with either Sir Robin or Joule
2. having a science major or a nerdy job, especially if you talk about it a lot and make nerdy jokes (this may apply to Ultra, but she started out too cool for it to bring her down)
3. moving out of San Diego, especially if it’s to Santa Barbara
4. posting on Dragon Coalition after you’ve graduated (or worse, reading Dragon Coalition secretly and not posting)
5. getting one and only one vote in the Underrated Cool Psycho Poll (I know you voted for yourself)
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